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13 Jun 1776 Boston, MA American artillery batteries under the command of Gen Benjamin Lincoln pound the HMS Renown, driving it from the harbor. The long British blockade finally ends. #RevWar #History #AmRev

7 June 1776 Charleston, SC Denied safe harbor at Wilmington, NC. A fleet under Commodore Peter Parker & Gen Henry Clinton enters the Palmetto State’s harbor & lands British troops on Long Island. #RevWar #History #AmRev

28 May 1777 Morristown, NJ. Gen Washington’s army 8,000-strong leaves winter cantonment and deploys to the Middlebrook Valley to observe & counter possible British movement on Philadelphia. #RevWar #History #AmRev

Yankee Doodle Spies: The Hessians https://t.co/8W2xwPoDqe

12 Oct 1781 Yorktown, VA The second parallel is threatened by British fire from Redoubts 9 & 10. The allies began preparations to reduce these troublesome strong points. #RevWar #History #AmRev

16 Jun 1776 Gen Henry Clinton lands 2,000 soldiers and 500 sailors to land on Long Island, in Charleston Harbor and orders them to wade across and attack American defenses on Sullivan’s Island. But the shoals prove too deep. #RevWar #History

14 May 1800
6th US Congress recesses & govt begins moving from Phila. PA to Washington, D.C. the next day.The location is a compromise between Alexander Hamilton & Thomas Jefferson. Fed govt assumes states'#RevWar debt & capital moves to the south & agrarian interests.
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15 April 1783
Continental Congress of the United States officially ratified the preliminary peace treaty with Great Britain signed in November 1782. Independence is won. But the last British trops would not leave the 13 colonies until late the next year. #RevWar #History

5 Mar 1770 Boston Massacre
A mob of angry colonists gathered at the Customs House in Boston began tossing snowballs & rocks at soldiers. The soldiers fired into the crowd killing 5. #RevWar #History

20 May 1782
Robert Shurtliff enlisted as a Private in the 4th Mass. Regt. of the Continental Army at Bellingham. This would not be of much note except that Robert was actually Deborah Samson #RevWar #History